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Police in Iredell County, N.C., said they gave Nascar driver Kyle Busch a speeding ticket and charged him with reckless driving yesterday after a sheriff’s deputy clocked him at 128 miles per hour in a 45 mph zone.

Busch, who drives for Joe Gibbs Racing Inc., was driving on Perth Road, between the towns of Troutman and Mooresville, N.C., near where the 26-year-old driver lives and where many Nascar teams have headquarters and race shops.

After watching Samantha Sarcinella this week on the ESPN2 reality miniseries “Riding Shotgun” I had a few questions for Nascar Driver Kyle Busch’s fiancee. Does she worry about the dangers of racing?

She says it all started with a part-time job in college. She was working as a promotional model while studying psychology at Purdue University. A few years ago one of her jobs took her to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway — the Brickyard — during a Nascar race weekend.

Haven’t you always wondered what race-car drivers do between race weekends? Of course they still have to do a lot of driving to test out new cars, parts and setups, but what about the rest of the schedule? Where do they go, what do they eat, and in whose company?

ESPN2 is trying to answer those questions and others with a five-part series called “Riding Shotgun: Kyle Busch,” which runs each evening this week, covering the activities of Nascar Sprint Cup Series driver Kyle Busch, his Joe Gibbs Racing team and fiance Samantha Sarcinella. Cameras are following Busch in the days leading up to the start of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup at New Hampshire Motor Speedway this Sunday.